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Where is she spreading her politics through GitHub?



With more bullshit like the diversity hiring spree theyre going on. But the internal politics doesn't worry me as much of the fact that they hired a professional bully that can influence who is allowed to use GitHub.


So you disagree with their internal politics? So what? As meh said in the Opal thread, you can absolutely use a tool made by people whose politics you disagree with.

Why are you assuming that GitHub will discriminate against you for your politics? I fully support your choice and in fact I think it's justified, but if you really didn't care about politics, you would keep using GitHub until they kick you off of it for thoughtcrime, as @meh would have the "SJWs" doing in that thread. It honestly just seems that you want a platform whose politics you agree with, and don't want to use a platform whose politics you disagree with.

That is totally fine and valid and is a thing everyone has the right to do. Nonetheless, it's still a politics. Politics is unavoidable, it is a consequence of being able to think and disagree. You can dislike the internal politics, but to do so you have to hold contradictory views yourself. That is the essence of disagreement, and cloaking it in anti-politics does nothing to change that.


> but if you really didn't care about politics, you would keep using GitHub until they kick you off of it for thoughtcrime

I do care about politics, but it is irrelevant to my projects. The time to care about losing access to your source code is before you lose access to it (like backups). Github has shown that there is a signifact risk to hosting my code there so I'm moving off it.

> It honestly just seems that you want a platform whose politics you agree with, and don't want to use a platform whose politics you disagree with.

No, it want a platform that doesn't get involved with politics. Just like I don't care about the politics of any other service I use, as long as it doesn't interfere with my using it.

> Nonetheless, it's still a politics. Politics is unavoidable, it is a consequence of being able to think and disagree.

So you'd be happy to shop somewhere that doesn't allow gay people?


>Just like I don't care about the politics of any other service I use, as long as it doesn't interfere with my using it.

So I'll ask again. How, concretely, do Coraline's politics interfere with your current usage of GitHub?


They don't interfere with my current usage. I'm concerned it will interfere with my future usage and I'm taking steps to ensure that doesn't happen.


>I'm concerned it will interfere with my future usage and I'm taking steps to ensure that doesn't happen.

And how do you know Coraline wasn't interacting in the same vein?




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